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A glossary of storage networking, data, and information management terminology. To learn more about the SNIA Dictionary click here.

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I/O request

A request by an application to read or write a specified amount of data.

In the context of real and virtual disks, I/O requests specify the transfer of a number of blocks of data between consecutive disk block addresses and contiguous memory locations. See I/O operation.

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